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I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants. 

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In a messed-up world, we need to watch each other's backs.

People who have big hearts should always be rewarded...

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Pov: you are a slice of cheese

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I really, really hate hot flashes. Definitely one of the more unpleasant things that go along with being female and getting older....

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My recent find of the delightful @can-they-assemble-ikea-furniture blog inspired me to make another Jane Austen crack poll.

Reblog and share in the tags which piece they're assembling, and if they get the meatballs, hotdog, or soft serve before they leave the store.

Edit: I made a poll for who is the worst at it too.

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NGL, that's why I was so excited when the Nick Valentine romance mod popped up. (I haven't played it for a while, but unfortunately it's apparently glitching....)

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inspired by the ‘your afternoon was already ruined’ post

Death Star Stormtroopers: “Freeze!”

Han: (panicking, trying to come up with a lie): Woah there don’t shoot, uh, you can’t shoot us because—because this guy is Darth Vader’s son! You don’t want to be responsible for shooting Darth Vader’s own flesh and bone do you?”

Luke: *glares incredulously*

Stormtroopers: “That is the dumbest thing—”

Leia: (done at this point, absolutely done with this rescue, better than Han at lying) “Exactly! Why would we tell you something so phenomenally insane if it weren’t true! Why do you think Darth Vader is so obsessed with finding Rebels, huh? Call him he’ll tell you!”

Luke: (also done, much better than Han at lying): “Or you could just shoot us; I’m sure my father, Darth Vader, inventor of the lightsaber, would be thrilled to meet the men who killed his son and his son’s friends.” *waves lightsaber arrogantly*

Stormtrooper 1: “Maybe we should call this in. I mean—he’s got a lightsaber, so that’s—that’s Vader stuff anyway.”

Stormtrooper 2: “are you kidding me right now?”

Leia: *shoots them while they’re distracted*

Han: “…We’re friends?”

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Tarkin: “The rebels said what? You incompetent fool, how could you buy such an absurd stalling—”

Vader: “My…son…”

Tarkin:

Tarkin: Oh fuck THIS.

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the perfect energy to begin with

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the perfect energy to begin with

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his little garden

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I work at a shelter for domestic violence victims. One of the things we sometimes do for kids, is (with parental permission) give them a simple chore to do... so we can tell them what a great job they did! "Hey, AdultClient ABC! Just so you know, KidClientXYZ had the front hall tidied up in, like, ten minutes! I don't know how they did it so fast and so good, but that was pretty amazing!" "Oh, KidClientMNO? Thanks for sweeping the floor so well, there was grass everywhere from the back yard! Now it's perfectly clean-- great work, there!" "Whoa, wait-- TeenKidClientQRS, you made muffins for everyone for breakfast? Holy. Cow. That's incredible, thank you so much! Guys, hey, guys-- listen up, you get blueberry muffins, made by QRS!" Our intent is to remind kids (and adults, of course) that, no matter what the abuser said, they are NOT useless, worthless, a burden, etc. They. Are. People. And they deserve to be treated with kindness and respect.

for the love of god, do not use chores to punish your kids!!!! it's just going to make them struggle deeply to keep their houses tidy as adults since you made them associate necessary chores with punishment and suffering, and it's going to take years of therapy to undo. don't use chores as punishments!!!